Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence &
Cognitive Science (AICS-97)

• Picture gallery of the conferences at imvaipho/
• Copies of the proceedings - 2 volumes, approximately 500 pages - are available for £ 25. Make cheques out to "IMVIP/AI'97 - University of Ulster" and send to Ms Caroline McNutt, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Magee College, Londonderry BT48 7JL, Northern Ireland.
• Final panel session of the IMVIP'97 and AICS-97 Conferences. What you need is a sound card and RealPlayer v. 4.0.

• Trip to Bushmills and Giants Causeway on Saturday afternoon. [Last update: 15 Aug.]
• The Banquet on Friday evening will be held at the Trinity Hotel. [Last update: 19 Aug.]
• Joint IMVIP'97/AICS-97 Provisional Programme now available. [Last update: 19 Aug.]
• AICS-97 Programme, - standalone version. [Last update: 19 Aug.]
• AICS-97 accepted papers. [Last update: 19 Aug.]
• Click-and-See map of the city and surroundings, and of the Magee College campus. [Last update: 20 Aug.]
• Poster panels are about A1 in size, i.e. will accommodate 8 A4-sized pages. [Last update: 3 Sept.]
• If you are registering at the desk, or paying for banquet, etc., it would be highly appreciated if you pay by Sterling GBP cheque or cash only. [Last update: 3 Sept.]
• Streaming Video Broadcast: Make sure you have RealPlayer 4.0 (available from Progressive Networks). [9 Sept.]

It is intended that the main plenary sessions at AI/IMVIP go out on streaming video and audio, stored and live with the possibility of phone-in questions (Organisation: Ted Leath, Magee College)

Has the field been in crisis? --- some argue we've been in the wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing, more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of AI...

Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This eighth AICS-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising presentations of Irish and International original research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science including Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience and related disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and vision processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge representation and mobile/remote computing. Papers which address whether or not the field has been in crisis and its failures/successes are particularly welcome!

Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial Intelligence.

AICS-97 Confirmed Invited Plenary Speakers

• John McCarthy, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US.
• Walther von Hahn, Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany.
• Naoyuki Okada, Department of Computer Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan.

IMVIP-97 Confirmed Invited Speakers

• James Crowley, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France.
• Anil Jain, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University.
• Jean-Christophe Olivo, Cell Biophysics Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

AICS-97 Chairs

• Fionn Murtagh, University of Ulster, Magee College, Northern Ireland
• Paul Mc Kevitt, Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Sheffield, England

Location

Artificial Intelligence at University of Ulster

Hosted By

In Cooperation With

AICS-97 Programme Committee

Conference Format

Registration and Accommodations

Student registration fee: respectively £ 75 and £ 100 for early and late registration.

Reduction for AISB members: £ 20 on either early or late registration.

Payment by cheque to "IMVIP/AI-97, University of Ulster". Note that no distinction is made in regard to the tandem conference AI'97 - the registration fee entitles participation at both. For registration, please use the form below, sign and send by regular mail. The registration fee includes conference materials, refreshments, and a copy of the proceedings.

Accommodation: nearby choices for hotel, bed and breakfast, and University student accommodation (price £ 19 per night), are all within a short walk of the Magee College campus. For University student accommodation, use the registration form.

To register, return the registration form to the University of Ulster address given on the form. Note again that the same registration procedure covers both AICS-97 and IMVIP'97. Also note that the trip to Giant's Causeway and Bushmills is now planned for the afternoon of Saturday 13 September (rather than the Sunday afternoon).

Submission Requirements

Conference Chairs and Local Organisers

Email: pmck@cpk.auc.dk
Fax: +45 98 15 15 83
Tel: +45 96 35 86 56

Fionn Murtagh
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
Derry/Londonderry BT48 7JL (Northern Ireland)

Email: fd.murtagh@ulst.ac.uk
Fax: +44 1504 375489 (from Republic of Ireland: 080 1504 etc.)
Tel: +44 1504 375453

Jon Campbell
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
Derry/Londonderry BT48 7JL (Northern Ireland)

Email: jg.campbell@ulst.ac.uk
Fax: +44 1504 375489
Tel: +44 1504 375367